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Subject: Re: Internal HD scrambled by SCSI device
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Date: 20 Sep 90 14:31:30 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.175620.15824@morrow.stanford.edu> rex@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Rex Sanders) writes:
>
>(synopsis of problems with powered-down DPI drive on a powered-up Mac.
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>How could BMUG recommend a drive with this "feature"?
>

Well, speaking on behalf of BMUG, we recommend the DPI because of all the
Syquest drives we've seen, theirs has the most effective cooling.  Most of
the problems we've seen with Syquest media could be traced to overheating
(sometimes the cartridges get almost too hot to touch with some other
manufacturers' drives).  We've also had the fewest reports of problems
with DPI's drives.

The problems that Rex noted are "features" of most SCSI drives, to the
extent that the problem, in my opinion, is really Apple's (in the sense
that it would be easiest for them to fix).  I must say, though, that
the most severe problem Rex related ("scrambling" the Mac's internal
hard disk) is something I've never experienced after starting up my
IIci with an internal Quantum 40 and a turned-off DPI drive.  Rex, if
you're a BMUG member -- I don't have our database handy just now :-) --
give Steve Costa a call on our help line and talk with him about it;
you may have something else going on with your drive...

John Heckendorn
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